Recovery

I'm not 100%, but definitely recovering from the evil Virus. It ran through everybody in the house last week. After 6 days, I thought I was safe. Nope. I had to cancel all my appointments yesterday - which means today will be rough. And I look like white trash, since I was vomiting hard enough to end up with a black eye.

Had lots of time to think things over though. Maybe instead of replacing that brocade undergown with plain linen, I'll do a quilted silk petticoat in coral? Whaddaya think?

I also want a copy of "Baked" by Matt Lewis. I DID find the Red Hot Velvet Cake with Cinnamon Buttercream recipe online, which I may make this weekend for Dale's Birthday. But I want a lot of the recipes in that book!

Also got our dining reservations made for Disney. I'm still going to check a few here and there to try to move them around. BUT we got Cinderella's Royal Table for dinner. ;-) Good fun.

I also concede that I need to learn to listend to ablackram 40 mg of pred = not enough. 50 mg = not enough. You were right, I should have started at 60 and been done with it by now. I are a chicken. And it gives me hot flashes.

Working tomorrow. Maybe I'll try to go raspberry picking on Monday. Next weekend - up to CHarlevoix to hang with the folks. SO lazy. No ambition.

More scheduling aggravation

Once again, my "peer" is being a PITA. She's gone and marked off time again for whatever she does. Much to my annoyance.

So, for those who keep track, and for girls' weekend planning purposes:

I am working Oct 3 and 10 - off the other 3 weekends. Obviously I'll be taking the girls out Trick-or-Treating on Oct 31. Time to compare calendars with ablackram, mistressarafina, and pjcull.

Doings and Goings on - Tree-mendus Fruit!

Somewhat to my surprise (and thanks to a couple of no-shows) today was not too onerous at work. I even had time to snuggle the most mellow orange kitty cat ever. I was thinking maybe he was sick. Now I'm pretty sure he's just a total moosh. Especially for 8 wks old. Anybody need a new baby? He lays on his back, purrs, and licks noses.

Due to being sick yesterday, working today, and the fact that Pammy, Kaleigh, Lisa, Paul, Ingrid, and Rocky were all not going - we skipped Havoc. Instead, we went fruit-picking. 14# of peaches, 3 # of green gage plums, and some heritage apples. Specifically, Duchess of Oldeburg and St. Edmund's Pippin. I restrained myself or I'd have gotten some Damsons and sugar pears, too. Tommorow - canning!! Gotta love Treemendus Fruit orchards. Good stuff. Annoying crowd. Every nationality running around, taking pictures, and generally getting in the way. In addition to not knowing how to pick fruit. (P.S. Fruit that does not come off easily is not ripe. Do not pull so hard that the rest of the rip fruit on that tree fall off - striking other pickers.) They did have cider, and heritage apple cider but it was a little pricey ($7 and $9 a gallon respectively). Maybe another trip. They had Gravensteins, Wolf Rivers, and the ubiquitous, over-sweet, why-do-people-like-these Honey Crisps.

Still trying to scratch my skin off. And wondering what in the bloody blue blazes I could be so allergic to. It must be an ongoing thing to keep up at this level. *help*